Nope. Semantics friend. I am no lawyer, but they never said he was at the murder scene. They said he was in the same neighborhood where the murder was committed.

The same neighborhood his parents live, where he has a business. Establishes that he had a reason, other than murder, to be in that section of the neighborhood.

This is the point they are setting up to argue with. He was in the neighborhood on family/personal/professional business and he got carjacked.

Again, Outlandish. But, no one places Nicodemo at the murder. He's not the shooter, but an innocent citizen who got roped in.

You get a couple jurors with contempt for the law, or who know how the city works, they may believe it. He passed the powder tests and his prints weren't on the gun. It's in the passenger seat.

And the phone calls: "Dude, I just got carjacked. WTF??"

It is almost completely Unbelievable. But, someone on that jury may like him.